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Upcoming Fixtures: Our senior mens team kick off their 2024 campaign away to Midleton in Towns Park at 2:30pm this Saturday the 13th. The senior women’s team host Bantry Bay at home in Kilballyowen on Sunday the 14th at 1pm. The u16 girls play Dolphin at home in a quarter final at 12pm Saturday. The u14 girls also play a quarter final against Clonakilty away at 1pm Sunday. Our u18 boys Yellow are away to Dungarven at 12pm Saturday with the White away to Crosshaven at 1pm. The u16 boys play Thomond Richmond at home 12pm Sunday

Upcoming Pre-Match Dinner: We are excited to announce we will be hosting a pre-match dinner in the clubhouse on March 2nd before our home game V Galwegians. More information to come regarding table bookings in the coming weeks. Save the date!

Important notes: We do not livestream any of our games. Comments underneath our posts particularly on Facebook are false, please do not click on any of these links. Any authentic livestream link in the future will be posted directly to Instagram, Twitter or Facebook by our official Bruff RFC Pages.

Christmas Raffle: Well done to our winners of the Club Shop Christmas Raffle.

1st Prize: Tom O’Dwyer Snr

2nd Prize: Louise Ryan

3rd Prize: Mary Paul Cooke

Club Lotto: You can enter for the next draw here: https://play.clubforce.com/play_newa.asp?ll_id=1444&fbclid=IwAR3SaaJ3dGIodb6QAC_Z92uAKu0dmG4prZAihgWzDqeRfVw9Hq-kaIMgBmI#Anchor

Membership: Tickets for the six nations are available now, please contact tickets@bruffrfc.com to apply. Don’t forget you need to be a member to apply for them! You can access membership registration here:

https://reg.sportlomo.com/club/IRFU/munsterrugby/bruff

Results: Another fantastic win for our senior men’s team, with only one loss in 8 games so far this season. A tricky start for bruff but fantastic resilience shown with the score 0-0 at halftime. Tullamore started the second half with a penalty but bruff scored the first try at the hands of Paul Collins which he converted himself. Tullamore came back with a converted try with only minutes left on the clock. The never say die attitude of bruff prevailed again and after a solid team effort near the try line, rob browne scored a try at the death which was then converted by Paul Collins. The final score was 14-10, our first win away in Tullamore since 2017. That leaves us in fourth place going into the last game of 2023. Our seconds team won 22-10 against Clonmel on Sunday with try’s from Johnny Cleary, Mark O’Connell and Eamonn Cooke with a conversion from Adam O’ Dwyer. We had fantastic underage results with the u14, u16 and u18 girls winning out all their games. A fantastic day for the club having 60 bruff girls playing on Saturday. The u18 white team also had a great win on Friday night against Mallow.

Upcoming Fixtures: A busy but exciting weekend ahead in Kilballyowen with our three senior teams facing Midleton at home. Our men’s first team play at 2:30pm Saturday 16th with our seconds following at 4:30pm. We will have live music in the clubhouse from 5:30. Our senior womens team kick off at 1:00pm Sunday 17th. Our u18.5 yellow team are away to Highfield at 12:00 Saturday with the white team at home to Kilrush 12:00 Sunday. The u14 boys are playing in the North Munster Plate Final V Shannon in Annacotty 11.15 Sunday.

Underage: Congratulations to Alana Griffin, Sophie O’Riordan and Isobel Davern-Wiseman for making the u16 Munster Development squad. A fantastic achievement and well deserved for you all.

Split the bucket: Our split the bucket starts this Saturday the 16th with Mary Paul doing the draw in the clubhouse on Sunday afternoon.

Club Raffle: Congratulations to our winners from the club raffle which was done last Saturday in the clubhouse. Sean Garvey ,Donnach Daly, Heather Ellevsen, Kate o Connor, William Ryan, Robert Grimes.

Club Shop Christmas Opening Hours: Our club shop will be opening Sunday 17th December 9:30am-12pm, Monday 18th December 7pm-8:30pm, Tuesday 19th December 7pm-8:30pm and will close until the new year after the 19th.

Club Lotto: Congratulations to our first Jackpot Winner Claire Mc Mahon who won €12,300! You can enter for the next draw here: https://play.clubforce.com/play_newa.asp?ll_id=1444&fbclid=IwAR3SaaJ3dGIodb6QAC_Z92uAKu0dmG4prZAihgWzDqeRfVw9Hq-kaIMgBmI#Anchor

Membership: Tickets for the six nations will be allocated in January, don’t forget you need to be a member to apply for them! You can access membership registration here:

https://reg.sportlomo.com/club/IRFU/munsterrugby/bruff

Activity has certainly cranked up a few gears around Kilballyowen over the past few weeks and last week saw our Annual Golf Classic take place in Ballyneety and proved to be a great success, The Club were humbled by the support shown across the community and would like to thank everyone who supported by either playing or sponsoring in the event. We then moved to our first real competitive outing when we hosted Sunday’s well in what’s equivalent of the Munster Senior League, this coincided with the unveiling of our new sponsor of our Senior Team by Toco Welding Ltd. (Tomas Coleman) in which the Club are truly thankful for Tomas’s fantastic support. Looking splendid in their Canary Yellow our first team put in a display which was as as easy on the eye as the new gear as we raced to a 22-0 lead at halftime, through try’s from Kieran Bennett Andrew o Byrne(2) Credit to the Well who hit back with a couple of their own early in the 2nd half, but the lads bounced back with a cracker from Cian Clifford to finish, winning out on a scoreline 32-14, with a personal contribution of 22 pts from Andrew o Byrne. Next up is an away trip to Clonmel on Saturday. Our 2nds had good workout against the same opponents winning 37-17 with some of the lads putting lots of pressure on management for next week. Team Brendan Keogh Tomas Quigley Kieran o Dwyer Tom o Dwyer Darragh o Connell Robert Browne Johnny Cleary (capt) Cillian Rea Cian Clifford Davy o Grady Kieran Bennett Jack o Grady Andrew o Byrne Mark Fitzpatrick Adam o Dwyer Darragh Browne Brian Bulfin Craig Finn Conor Fitzpatrick Graham Whelan. Our club Lotto reached 5000€ on Saturday last which wasn’t won, once again we thank all who support it week in week out. All our underage continues throughout the week keep an eye on our social media platforms for timetable.

This week our Lotto reaches €4000 the club would like to thank everyone so far who has contributed, to be in with a chance to win click on the link below

Remember €2 per play and there’s also the very attractive offer of 3 plays for €5

Our Lotto is coming close to €4000 euro next week and would be a lovely little boost to ones account. The draw for €3900 takes place on Saturday evening So to be in with a chance to win click on the link below.

It’s €2 a play or what’s great value is the 3 for €5

We are also putting in place a system whereby one play as a cash player for anyone that may have problems with logins or emails

Once again thanks for your support and remember our Adult teams are back training.

Anyone who may be interested in playing All-Ireland League you are more than welcome to Bruff Rfc

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